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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 195AWB

Consent invalidated by duress or false or misleading statements

             (1)  If a person applies duress to an author, or to a person representing an author, in connection with the giving of a consent for the purposes of section 195AW or 195AWA, the consent does not have any effect.

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  a person makes a statement to another person; and

                     (b)  the person makes the statement knowing:

                              (i)  that the statement is false or misleading in a material particular; or

                             (ii)  that a matter or thing has been omitted from the statement without which the statement is false or misleading in a material particular; and

                     (c)  the person makes the statement with the intention of persuading the other person to give, or not to give, a consent for the purposes of section 195AW or 195AWA;

the consent does not have any effect.



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